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Discussion in 'Chatter' started by Bender, Feb 2, 2008.

  1. ImWithStupid

    ImWithStupid New Member

    George Washington was the exception. He wanted to model himself after his hero, the great Roman Emperor Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus.

    Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus@LeadershipNow.com

    Theodore Roosevelt somewhat did this too by refusing to run for office after serving just under two terms.

    He later didn't like the way the Presidency was going and tried to run again under the Bull Moose Party.
     
  2. hugo

    hugo Big Time BS'er

    Back to debating.

    From Scalia's dissenting opinion on McCain?Feingold

    Rush was right when he labeled it the Incumbant protection Act.
     
  3. ImWithStupid

    ImWithStupid New Member

    Thank you Hugo. For both staying on topic and ignoring the background noise.
     
  4. snafu

    snafu Big Time BS'er

    I'm looking at the soft money issue of it but where dose it say advertising smears pertains to only incumbents?
     
  5. timesjoke

    timesjoke Progressive Killer

    There are more people that believe Bush planned 9/11 than want Ron Paul for President, that should be a clue.
     
  6. hugo

    hugo Big Time BS'er

    True intelligence is rarer than idiocy.
     
  7. hugo

    hugo Big Time BS'er

    The incumbents have a natural advantage. The more they limit campaign spending the better their chances of reelection are. More importantly, it is an infringement on political speech,. The primary purpose of the 1st was to protect political speech.

    Thankfully, parts of McCain/Feingold have already been ruled unconstitutional Supreme Court allows issue ads in federal elections - CNN.com, McCain is no friend of the Constitution.
     
  8. timesjoke

    timesjoke Progressive Killer

    That all depends on where you look.

    I can find truly intelligence any time I want, but I know where to look.


    RP is a great kind of guy to offer a counterbalance to the wackos on the other side, a perfect counterbalance.


    He would be a terrible President however because of his radical stands. He would turn everyone away from him, conservative and liberal.

    Most of the Country tends to be sowhere in the middle of politics, not on the outside fringe like he is. Sure, I like a few of his ideas, but most of them such as being an isolationist and never using military might for any reason outside of American borders, are just too far out into space to even consider him as a viable Presidential canidate.
     
  9. snafu

    snafu Big Time BS'er

    I think it was IWS that said he was delusional. That best describes Ron. He has good views but some are impossible to obtain.
     
  10. hugo

    hugo Big Time BS'er

    Paul's views are really a combination of Robert Taft's and Barry Goldwater's views. Both once leaders of the Republican Party when it stood for limited government and America first.

     
  11. snafu

    snafu Big Time BS'er

    So to even it out you think that more money from small interest groups is the answer? An incumbent runs on his merit. I don't see that as an advantage that is wrongfully given. He either has a better chance because he was good or he has a lesser chance because he screwed up. And I really see an advantage to the country keeping an incumbent as apposed to changing policy every four years.
    When the first amendment was written I think Benjamin Franklin had one of the only media outlets. I don't think they foresaw the corruption small interest groups combined with mass false media would have to play in todays politics.
     
  12. timesjoke

    timesjoke Progressive Killer

    Does that include refusing to assist our friends if their in trouble?


    RP is on record for saying that America has never used our military outside our borders in a good way.

    This includes ww1, ww2, even attacking Afganistan after 9/11 was wrong in his view.


    RP blames 9/11 on America, he says we brought it on ourselves.


    As far as I'm concerned, anyone who can blame us for 9/11 cannot be President of the united states.
     
  13. hugo

    hugo Big Time BS'er

    First from Ron Paul:

    George Washington:

    Mr. Republican, Robert Taft

    Paleoconservative Pat Buchanan, May 2000:

    Ain't nothing conservative about neoconservatism, it is liberal Wilsonian idealism.
     
  14. hugo

    hugo Big Time BS'er

    The incumbant has a greater chance due to name recognition and congressional mail privileges. Incumbents already win more than 95% of the time. Ya think they are that good?

    Bushs Broken Promise
    He once pledged to veto Shays-Meehan.

    February 21, 2002 8:20 a.m.


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  15. timesjoke

    timesjoke Progressive Killer

    Ron Paule blames America for 9/11:


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  16. hugo

    hugo Big Time BS'er

    Who is more secure us or Canada? Not sure why we should be fighting Europe and Britain's war when they already surrendurred.

    I am a bit tired of being taxed to defend the ****ing world. Let us worry about our own borders.
     
  17. timesjoke

    timesjoke Progressive Killer

    I agree to a certain extent, but it was our involvement in the world that stopped Hitler and made it possible to stop Runmnian attempts to take over the world.


    The world would now be speaking german or russian if not for American involvement in the world issues.


    Muslim problems are increasing because they use our own systems against us. They wage the war against us from many directions including the media war gaining sympathy for their cause even from people like Ron Paul.

    Ron Paul is parroting their dogma about them only attacking because we provoked them but are these claims true or is this just what their saying to gain support?


    If a man can blow up a school bus filled with children and be proud of that, what makes Ron Paul or anyone else think this same man is truthful and honest? Why trust the words of a terrorist?
     
  18. hugo

    hugo Big Time BS'er

    Paul is not saying the terrorists are justified in their attacks. I have a responsibility to protect my home and family. If some thug comes through a door that I forgot to lock then my negligence is partly to blame for any harm the thug causes.

    How Paul would protect the US; from wikipedia:

    Let us worry about our own borders, restrict immigration from Muslim countries until moderate Islam defeats radical Islam and let us stop running around the world spending 100's of billions of dollars and precious American lives forcing democracy down the throats of those incapable of receiving it. If we were gonna take out Saddam we should have quickly replaced him with a tinpot dictator and gone home.
     
  19. wez

    wez Big Time BS


    We have had a military presence in their part of the world since the 1940's. I have never seen a foriegn soldier in my life. People in our government have done things that we are not briefed on as ordinary citizens. Do we really know the whole story of our own real history? We have bad people here too.. Maybe they're just a bit better at hiding it or twisting the truth. Sometimes the surface needs to be scraped a bit and given a closer look, even if one knows they don't want to see what's underneath.

    Nothing justifies 9/11.. But is it wrong to deeply, critically think as to what may have lead up to such a horrific event? I think not.. I just don't see us as helpless victims in the whole affair.
     
  20. hugo

    hugo Big Time BS'er


    The fact is the primary role of the federal government is to protect us from foreign aggressors. They failed on September 11, 2001.
     

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